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ground support. there was an individual standing on the platform above the steel spraying water deeply inside trying to douse the fire that once again started at 5:00. neither schnitzer steel other oakland fire are talking about the cause of the fire but it's burning next to the shredding facility. they shred cars and appliances, iron and non-iron based scrap metal for recycle. we are paying particular attention to the shredding area because a fire erupted there in 2009 sending a gray and brown plume of smoke so high that the fire could be seen in the east bay hills and just last year, january of 2010, to be exact, a fire erupted in the scrapyard once again same area here at
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schnitzer's steel. there were no reports of injuries in either fire. back out live, we do know in the past, bay area air quality management district has monitored those fires to determine if toxic compounds were released. we do know at least in that april 2009 fire they discovered no toxic compounds in the air. we'll continue to bring you the latest as it becomes available. >> looking at how high that pile is, it doesn't seem unusual that there would be something smoldering in there. these other fires, do we know if they were fined for any of the causes? >> reporter: at this hour we do not. >> okay. all right, keep an eye on it, let us know. things change. robert lyles, thank you. the all clear has been given so people are returning home now after a gas leak this afternoon forced them out of their houses, causing a monumental traffic jam. schools evacuated, too. it happened in pleasant hill near diablo valley college and
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the college park neighborhood. juliette goodrich is at the spot where that leak happened and they were supposed to get it capped by now or pretty soon. juliette. >> reporter: well, that's the good news. the leak has been capped. pg&e crews still trying to restore service in the area. where they have done most of the work as you can see is where they capped it. the rupture happened, the natural gas line rupture happened this afternoon around 2:30 a 3" natural gas line hit by a pg&e subcontractor. the crews were doing asphalt concrete restoration. now, the line has been capped on either side. residents informed they can go back home. but earlier, hundreds of them were called by an alert phone line telling them to evacuate and i have to tell you a lot of them took it seriously saying they thought about the san bruno explosion. police even went door to door telling residents to clear out. [ pause ] >> the leak did not pose any immediate danger although
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police advise the evacuation as a precaution. >> reporter: diablo valley college classes have been cancelled tonight, allen. crews still working to restore some power in the area. and what actually happened, if you come out here live, where the line was ruptured is just past these trucks over here and then 25 feet down is where we had the video showing you them digging a hole to actually cap it. they did it on either side of it. and now it's all clear, a little hint of gas smell right now but not too bad. >> juliette, i know you thought of this, maybe they haven't been able to answer it for you, but we're sitting here thinking this is a somebody contractor for pg&e. surely they must have been told where the gas line -- they must have the maps. >> reporter: absolutely. pg&e is out here, it was like a third party subcontractor doing asphalt work. and so of course they got the maps out right now and everyone is trying to figure out who gave the clear to go do that. >> thank you, juliette goodrich in pleasant hill. we'll be right back. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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someone stole the tool he a devastating loss for a 14- year-old student who is blind he. someone stole a tool that he disseparately needs. christin ayers on what he won't be able to do until the thief returns it. >> why would someone do this? >> reporter: her son kevin has never had it easy. born with congenital glaucoma he is legally blind but he never thought he would be the victim of such a heartbreaking crime. >> it was terrible. to realize that someone had violated not just, you know, any damage but a 14-year-old boy. [ crying ] >> reporter: a thief smashed in the side window of their suv wednesday and took off with kevin's backpack. >> we found that the car door was smashed and his backpack was stolen. [ crying ]
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>> sorry. >> reporter: inside was this device called a braille note. it's worth anywhere from $5,000 to $7,000 and for kevin, it's a lifeline. >> i depend on it to do all my homework, like english homework and things like that. >> reporter: officials at the school for the blind that kevin attends say it allows blind people to do everything from word processing to internet surfing and reading ebooks all using braille. annie doubts the thief would even know what to do with the braille note. it's useless to anyone who doesn't read braille. the equipment was on loan from the california school for the blind and annie just found out she will have to pay for the equipment if it's never found. >> we would love for this equipment to be returned no questions asked. >> it really does hurt people if you do steal from them. no matter what it is. >> that was christin ayers reporting. today jurors in the michael jackson murder trial got a
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closer look into the events leading up to the pop star's death. jackson's bodyguard, alberto alvarez, took the stand in the trial against the singer's former doctor, conrad murray. alvarez testified that murray asked him to get rid of vials before calling 911. >> he reached over and grabbed a handful of vials and then he reached out to me and said, here, put these in a bag. >> prosecutors also say murray didn't tell doctors at the hospital that jackson may have overdosed. we say ecstasy and immediately teenagers, rave parties and overdoses are probably your first thoughts but the drug out on the streets is nothing like was patented in 1913, a diet pill. a closer look at an effort to legalize ecstasy for therapeutic use. reporter: ecstasy, or ex,
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has gotten the modern day acid test at reyes like this but the drug that's gone underground since being outlawed in 1985 has also undergone a transformation. the street drug can now be a dangerous sometimes deadly concoction of ingredients such as methamphetamine, lsd or even talcum party. >> people often say it's a drug you can call your mother on while using it. you can be clear, emotional, direct, but you don't lose track of what you're saying. >> reporter: rick runs the multidisciplinary association for psychedelic studies or maps for short. the nonprofit is in the second phase of clinical trials of its pure government-approved ecstasy or mdma, designed to treat veterans and victims of sexual abuse suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. >> it's assisted psychotherapy and the psychotherapy is more important than the the mdma.
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our propose sal that this drug be administered only under a highly regulated circumstance with specifically trained people in special locations. >> reporter: in the maps trials, patients are given three supervised doses of the drug over several months and they are also given talk therapy so that the effects will enhance the talk therapy allowing patients to make better progress. >> our whole culture has gone wrong while focusing qualities on substances when the actual determination is due to the relationship you have with the drug. >> reporter: certainly not everyone agrees. >> it is pretty to think so. >> reporter: this doctor is not alone in his skepticism. after all mdma has amphetamine- like and hallucinogenic properties and has physical effects like raised body temperature and blood pressure. he is skeptical of an 80% success rate. >> it's a claim that should be viewed with skepticism because
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they seldom turn out to be true in that magnitude. this is basedon a small number of drugs. >> reporter: it was almost impossible to keep the patients from knowing if they had been given true ecstasy or not. after all, the effects are fairly unique. how close do you think we are realistically to fda approval. >> a long ways. i don't see any great enthusiasm on the part of the federal regulatory agencies to be more liberal in their usage of drugs that could be abused on the street. >> earlier this year harvard medical school published results of its almost $2 million study of ecstasy paid for by the national institute on drug abuse. while it found use didn't decrease mental ability, it also stated it's dangerous to use. if you have a story idea, log on to cbssf.com, click "connect," scroll down to "closer look" and send an email. so did you feel it? a small earthquake rattled the east bay. it hit about two miles
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southeast of oakland just around 4:45 this afternoon. the usgs recorded the quake at a magnitude 3.3. so there it was. in case were you wondering. >> roberta, i felt something. it was a lot cooler today than yesterday. >> a lot. we're talking about 25 degrees cooler across the bay area today. and it was all because we had the return of the low clouds and fog. it was the marine layer that pushed back onshore in earnest. let's go outside and look at this right now. you can see that huge deck of clouds pushing into the bay moving from the west marching to the east and that's what's affecting our temperatures adversely and also increasing the winds out of the west up to a good 15 miles per hour. currently in and around our microclimates, our temperatures are stacking up like this. after a high today of only 67 in san francisco, it's currently 63 but you have to remember yesterday, it was 88 degrees. that's a significant cooldown. santa rosa currently at 64.
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it was 97 degrees yesterday. so obviously, we cool down up to 25 degrees today. tomorrow, additional cooling takes place everywhere. and then i would use this weekend to start thinking about some storm cleaning. bring in the cushions off the furniture in the backyard because we have major changes in our forecast. tomorrow the clouds sweep in and out. we'll see some partial clearing it coast but the big deal is a series of storms stacked up to the north of the bay area. that's going to bring rain. wait until you see that seven- day forecast. but first things first. 75 san jose for friday. east bay numbers up to about 81 degrees. that's it. most of us in the 70s east of the bay. 64 degrees in bodega bay with a hint of some clearing. otherwise, 84 degrees in sonoma. the winds out of southwest up to 15 miles per hour. tonight, becoming mostly cloudy in most areas with some patchy fog after midnight. so here you go. tomorrow a cooldown, over the weekend mostly cloudy skies and then we have rain developing in the north bay on monday.
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rain and wind everywhere on monday, tuesday remaining cloudy i over the weekend and that is your pinpoint forecast. wait until you see the picture i have in store for you coming up later in the newscast. >> really? >> oh, yeah. you'll like it. >> see how it develops. thank you. students punished for politeness? tonight parents in vacaville are angry that a teacher docked his class points when someone in the class said, bless you after a sneeze. joe vazquez on the teachers's explanation. joe? >> reporter: allen, this story has already gone national with conservative media outlets from drumming to sean hannity saying this is another example of a teacher trying to take god out of the classroom. bonus quiz question in high school health class. what are you supposed to say if someone sneezes? at wood high school in vacaville, don't do what happened to freshman taylor. >> i sneezed and somebody said bless you.
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the teacher was like, do you think this girl is evil? do you think evil is coming out of her when she sneezes ? >> reporter: what did he mean by that. >> i don't really know. i think it was more like teaching us a lesson. >> reporter: that lesson? don't say "bless you." in taylor's case, teacher steven cuckovich gave the students a warning. erica fagan says a sneeze and bless you cost her entire class. cuckovich deducted 25 points from every student. >> he says it's distracting to the class. >> reporter: cuckovich said he believes his students in health class mind you should be aware that saying "bless you" represents an antiquated superstitious view of human health. >> a blessing doesn't make sense anymore. when you sneeze, in the old days they thought you were dispelling evil spirits out of your body. so they were saying, god bless you for getting rid of the evil spirits. today what you're doing doesn't make sense. >> reporter: the school district sent out a press
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release with a different explanation saying cuckovich was simply responding to students acting up in class. "the teacher believes the students were dramatically sneezing and responding in repetitive fashion, sneezing then saying "bless you" over and over again. >> he said it wasn't about religion. >> reporter: whatever it was about, the principal says the rule has changed. blessing will no longer be penalized. >> he realized there are better ways to do that. we don't condone, you know, that type of -- of -- of punishment. >> reporter: so the school district acknowledges that giving a blessing after a sneeze is a social norm. and they say they welcome that kind of blessing. but allen, they say that they don't think that sort of blessing should be abused. and that's where the question comes in, were these kids out of control or is the teacher trying to make some point? >> joe in vacaville, thank you. for more than two dozen santa cruz students may have
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gotten sick from the norovirus. we are going have that story in just a moment. >> before that, another satellite on a collision course with earth. only this time, we may not be as lucky as we were the last time. fish is brain food? they may have bigger brains than you think. i'm mike sugerman in santa cruz. we'll have that story coming up. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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over napa. a huge home on atlas peak road is on fire. breaking news. our chopper 5 is in napa. a huge home on atlas peak road is on fire just above the silverado country club in napa. looks like the main house is fully engulfed along with other structures on the property. it's a little difficult to see
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from this vantage point but it appears that one structure is completely burned. we understand the house is 10,000 square feet. and, of course, this is sending a huge plume of smoke into the napa valley. it can be seen for miles. we wanted to bring this to you, a home in napa on fire. the department is there trying to contain it. we will keep you posted and watch this. in the meantime a claimer on he will -- climber on el capitan slipped while thousands of feet in the air losing part of his hand. but his partner's quick thinking saved the day. don ford has the amazing rescue. >> reporter: yosemite national park attracts rock climbers from around the world. two austrian men were almost to the top of el capitan when lead climber michael fell a few feet. but the safety line became tangled wrapped around his right hand and ripped his thumb
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completely off. >> and the thumb is gone and the bone is looking a little bit of the bone is looking out of the climbing hand. >> reporter: this rescue helicopter reached are the injured climber and pulled him from the face of el capitan. after his rescue michael was rushed to the california pacific medical center in san francisco. on call that night, michael's surgeon dr. darrell brooks. >> looking at his thumb, i felt that it was a good chance that we would get it back on. >> good afternoon. >> reporter: michael is resting now. he remembers calling down to his climbing buddy who was 60 feet below on the cliff. >> i asked him did you see my thumb? and he said, yes. it's lying here at my feet. [ laughter ] >> reporter: pretty good spirits considering. but michael is no amateur. in his hometown he is the head of the austrian mountain rescue. he says it's too early to tell when he will be back on the
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mountain. in san francisco, don ford, cbs 5. from the mountains to the sea -- wasn't that an anchor in l.a. used to say that, we have a real fish story for you know. >> certain types of fish have learned to use tools. mike sugerman spoke with the researcher who made that story and he is at the beach in santa cruz with that story. mike? >> reporter: well, dana, this is a story about an historic scientific breakthrough and discovery. but it's also the story of a santa cruz scientist who waited all of his life for one moment and when that moment came, everything went perfectly. this is something you have never seen before, few humans have. this biologist describe it is with infectious enthusiasm. he spent the past 15 years trying upwards of 4,000 times to capture such a moment, one
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no human has ever captured before. >> this is one of these eureka moments where you finally get to see exactly what you're homing for. so that was quite special. >> reporter: this video he took in the south pacific shows an orange dotted tusk fish taking a clam to a rock, banging it to bust it open. using the rock as a tool. humans had no evidence that fish could use tools before. >> this was one of those very lucky moments. so that's made up for all those hundreds of hours of cold dives where we couldn't see anything. so that was really nice. >> reporter: humans use tools and 50 years ago anthropologist jane goodall discovered chimps do, too. now he brought back evidence from the waters of the south pacific that fish do, as well. >> bringing down all the way to fishes opens a new way of looking at these animals that
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we consider quite unsophisticated behaviorally but they do very precise things. >> reporter: they are smart and good eating, too. popular especially in the asian cultures. he caught his prey with this a simple but dependable point and shoot camera in an underwater case. imagine if it didn't work or if he didn't press the right buttons. but he did. and now his name will be listed among other pioneers like goodall in scientific history. >> already having my name even associated with such an icon is huge. so, you know... [ signal breakup ] these kinds of books since i was a kid. >> reporter: in future books his name will likely be mentioned too. now, i kept thinking through this whole thing, what if the battery wasn't charged, of what if he waited all his life for this one moment and it didn't work? but it did and he will go down if the record books >> i was just thinking, you know, i live near the water.
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the seagulls do that. they pick up crabs and clams and they drop them to the ground and -- >> they are hungry. >> yeah. i think it's a great thing that he has discovered this. so bravo. >> reporter: amazing. >> okay, mike. thank you. mike sugerman. the search for a mendocino county man suspected of killing two people, why now authorities say they know they are looking in the right area. >> a funeral that is weeks away, why south bay police are already on alert. and the new fee that may make you think twice about using that debit card. ,,,,,,,,,,
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month, a double murder suspect has managed to outrun the law. for the last month, a double murder suspect has managed to out run the law taking refuge in the rugged wooded terrain of mendocino county. dozens of law enforcement officers have been combing the area east of fort bragg even using a famous tourist attraction to lack for him. in the last couple hours, mark sayre has learned of a new development. >> reporter: a big break in the case for investigators today where they have confirmed that for the first time in a month,
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they had what they are calling an encounter with their suspect aaron bassler. they were not able to take him into custody. has he been injured? we don't have the answer to that question. there is a news conference later tonight to reveal the details and for now this investigation and this search is continuing. with new hope that they are closing in on their target, law enforcement teams carrying high- powered weapons set out to search the rugged mendocino county forest. 35-year-old aaron bassler has been on the run for more than a month suspected in two murders. and a law enforcement surveillance camera caught him trying to break into a cabin while armed with an assault rifle. >> we are dealing with, you know, the low dense forest and we are having to call in to get to certain --crawl in to get to certain areas. >> reporter: a sergeant from the mendocino county sheriff's department says search teams also know bassler knows the territory well. >> even potential he could be hiding watching us walk by so it's fortunate that, you know, none of us has been injured by this person yet.
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>> reporter: one of mendocino county's most popular tourist attractions, the skunk train, cuts a path right through the search area between fort bragg and willits. in addition to tourists, law enforcement teams in full camouflage gear are now getting on the train as they use it to get to some of their search locations. >> we are actively transporting and will continue to do so until this matter is resolved. >> reporter: the skunk train was closed for six days at the beginning of this search. but law enforcement believes it is currently safe to operate. >> we have all of the appropriate security measures in place. we would not put the safety of our crew and our passengers at risk for the dollar. >> reporter: tourists craig rosenberg was boarding the train and had not previously heard about the manhunt. >> i'm just not going to worry about it. >> reporter: fort bragg remains on edge with residents saying this entire episode is taking a toll on their way of life.
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>> it's gotten to the point that i don't feel comfortable going out into the forest. >> reporter: now, investigators have conclusively linked aaron bassler by fingerprints to a theft of food at one unoccupied vacation cabin here in the mountains. they do believe that he is also responsible for thefts at other vacation cabins where in one case two firearms were taken. they do consider him very dangerous but again, the developing news here, they did encounter him today. he is moving through the forest and getting supplies to survive by apparently burglarizing some of these cabins but again, for the first time in a month today, authority encountered him. awaiting details on exactly what happened out in the 400 square miles that they are searching behind us. back to you. >> maybe authorities don't want to give up any of their tactics in this search. but i'm wondering if they are using any air support with infrared equipment that could seek out body heat. >> reporter: well, that would be an obvious tool that they would use, dana. they say they are using all sorts of tools.
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the u.s. marshals service, a federal agency with federal resources, is here helping them. they have confirmed that they placed unmanned cameras about 40 of them in strategic areas around the forest. that is how they caught that black and white photo they saw with him with the gun. and they are using other tools including electronic surveillance. we haven't seen any choppers but it would stand to reason that at night some sort of heat- seeking chopper would be a good choice. >> we'll look forward to hearing what they have to say. thank you. a napa county soldier who was on his first of seas deployment was killed in afghanistan this week. 21-year-old army specialist garretf fant of american canyon died monday of injuries from a roadside bomb blast. he was on patrol in hellman province when his unit was attacked. specialist fant was assigned to the first infantry division out of fort riley, kansas. store owners are on edge in the east bay because of an
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armed robbery spree by people wearing costumes and masks. have have been nearly a dozen robberies with the same technique in antioch, pleasant hill and walnut creek. the suspects robbed convenience stores that are open overnight. on tuesday a 7-eleven in pleasant hill was robbed by three masked men including one dressed as a skeleton. yesterday six men, one dressed as a skeleton and another a gorilla, flashed their weapons. they stole cash, cigarettes and soda from that valero gas station in walnut creek. a customer pumping gas says somebody shot at him but fortunately he wasn't hit. >> scary. people are crazy nowadays. >> walnut creek seems to be like a place where, like, kids want to come to rob people. you know? like they go, oh, let's just go over to walnut creek. they won't be expecting it. catch them off guard. >> five other stores have been ranked in antioch. police and the fbi were meeting
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today to compare notes. the search continues for a pellet gun-toting vandal who used an a.c. transit bus for target practice overnight. the line 72 bus was on its way through emeryville just after midnight when a pellet splintered the top of a side window. six people were on board. no one was hurt. plenty of the riders we spoke with today, though were shaken. >> can cause the bus driver to swerve or all kinds of trouble when those things happen. could cause very serious injury or even death. >> back in february, someone with a real gunshot at a bus in richmond. the bullets didn't hit anyone. but a 16-year-old was injured by flying glass. police in san jose are gearing up for what is expected to be a massive and noisy funeral. it's for a high ranking hells angels member who was shot to death last week. len ramirez on why police are worried about more than just
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the noise. len. >> reporter: this continues to be a tense situation in san jose because it involves the violent murder of a hells angels chapter president and also because of the sheer number of people expected to taken the funeral here. reporter: hundreds if not thousands of bikers and motorcycle club members are expected to converge on san jose and oak hill cemetery for the funeral of jeffrey jethro pettigrew, the san jose hells angels chapter president was murdered at a nevada casino. police are planning for traffic and trouble. >> we don't want a lot of congestion, we'll have to have traffic control at some point during the funeral and obviously this being a homicide, we will be visualing for any type of retaliatory things. we don't have any indication to believe that's going to happen. >> reporter: pettigrew, who grew up in the san jose area, was shot four times in the back during a gunfight with members of another bikers club at the nugget casino in sparks. police in nevada and california are looking for the alleged
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gunman, 53-year-old ernesto manuel gonzalez of san jose. >> the big concern is, we don't know what his state of mind is and we don't know what someone else will run into him and get injured and in particular, law enforcement people if they make a stop or something, no telling what's going to happen then. >> reporter: this is the type of scene police are preparing for, a similar funeral two years ago also brought out long processions of bikers paying tribute to another hells angels member murdered in san francisco. >> we have to remember this is a funeral. and i don't think that anybody regardless of who is going to attend is going to come here to cause problems. they are here to pay their respects to this individual and we're here to make sure that they're able to do that safely and has minimal impact to the residents here in san jose. >> reporter: san jose police say at this point the details are still rather sketchy. they don't to exactly the route that this procession is going to take or how many officers are actually going to be needed. they have time to plan, however. the funeral is mid-october.
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reporting live in san jose, len ramirez, cbs 5. more than two dozen uc- santa cruz students may have gotten sick from norovirus. 26 students have reported getting the stomach flu during the first week of classes. 22 of them live in one of two adjacent dorms which share a dining hall. the university sent out a schoolwide email warning students to be careful. >> should base basically take precautions, keeping clean so we don't spread or get infected. >> health services is working with the county health department to identify a possible cause of that virus. the california city with the highest unemployment rate in the country, a staggering 33%. >> and 5 bucks to use your debit card? the new banking fee and what you can do to avoid it. front. unemployment ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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rates fell in two- thirds ci a bit of good news on the jobs front. unemployment rates fell in two- thirds of u.s. cities last month. large agricultural areas added jobs to coincide of course with harvest time in the fall. however, some cities are still suffering including one in california. el centro in imperial county has the highest unemployment rate in the country at 33%. if you are a bank of america customer it's going to cost you more. julie watts explains a new wave of fees that the giant bank is expected to roll your way. >> reporter: these fees were unheard of a year ago. but now bank of america says it can no longer allow you or afford to allow you to let you use your debit card for free so beginning next year, they will start charging $5 a month whether you make one purchase a month or 50 purchases a month. there is, however, still no fee if you only use that debit card at the atm. now, this new fee comes as banks are expected to lose about $19
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billion in fees when new regulations go into effect on october 1 limiting the amount they can charge merchants when you swipe your debit card at the store. the move will push more customers towards credit cards, which is also beneficial to big institutions like bank of america. in fact, in a recent poll, 66% said they would find a new way to pay if faced with a $5 fee and that is what we found out here tonight. >> i would find some other alternative, for sure. >> reporter: like what? >> use the bank credit card. >> i mean, i'll use it less. >> i'm going to negotiate to get the fee taken off mine. i'm going to try to get it off because i'm a regular user with a business account. it's ridiculous they would charge me, too use the debit card. >> reporter: what if they continue to charge you to use the debit card? >> i'll look for another bank. >> i might use my wells fargo card. >> reporter: now, wells fargo is testing out a $3 fee. >> same sentiment to them, as well. if all the banks present the same type of fee, there is nothing the consumers can do.
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>> reporter: wells fargo will also start charging a $3 debit fee next month but so far, not here in california. in a statement from bank of america they say today, quote, the economics of offering a debit card have changed with recent regulations. as a result, we have decided to introduce a monthly usage fee. the fee will be waived for customers with certain premium accounts. bank of america is not alone. wells fargo is testing out a $3 fee but not here in california. right now only in special markets. jpmorgan chase is doing the same. and all of these fees come as the monthly fees for those checking accounts are on the rise, as well. so one of the options for folks who can't afford these fees is to possibly look into something other than be a bank. possibly a credit union. >> yeah. >> or just use cash. and not pick up this fee. >> reporter: you could but depending on what you need to purchase, that could be a lot
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of cash and not necessarily safe. >> all right, julie watts, thank you. well, fans of target you know you can find just about anything there. how about the first lady? michelle obama did a little shopping at a store in alexandria, virginia today, sunglasses and hat. apparently the only one who recognized her was the cashier who range her up and then somebody took the picture. mrs. obama spent about 30 minutes in the store and she had an assistant and a handful of secret service agents with her. that might have given her away. but she pushed her own cart. where are the girls? >> we are pushing much cooler temperatures in and around the bay area today. in fact, we cool down a good 25 degrees in some locations. rain in the forecast. the day to expect it as eyewitness news continues. did the raiders sell out? will the game be on tv? we have the answer coming up. and have you ever met speed racer in a malt shop? you're about to coming up. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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did you hear that crying is this that was dana crying
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because the hot weather is over. >> here's a girl who told you it would cool down today. >> i have been crying for a while. >> but did she say it would cool down by 25 degrees today? that was generally the case. let's look at some of the current conditions around the microclimates now. 65 degrees in san francisco. pacifica that sweater weather -- not even sweater weather. that's jacket weather in the upper 50s. it's now 73 degrees in livermore after highs today that did top off much cooler than yesterday when we were at 97 degrees in san jose and instead today 79. low 80s in cupertino. so 70s and 80s pretty much the dominant feature across the santa clara valley. east bay numbers stacked up to 90 in livermore more one of the warm spots. 91 in pleasanton and also in sunol. and across the central bay, into the 60s and 70s. san francisco tumbled to 67 degrees because of this, the fog. the low clouds. the patchy fog that pushed into the bay today. wow! how dramatic is that? that's going to cool everybody
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down again tomorrow. so today, we had that additional cooling. well, tomorrow, even more cooling. and then this weekend, i would make some plans to start cleaning around the homestead because we do have some storms working their way into the seven-day forecast. we'll feature that. but first things first, look at your futurecast. we have the low clouds and fog burning off tomorrow to ample sunshine inland, partial coastal clearing. series of storms stacking up to the north of us, that's the story. oh, there's that marine layer right there. but these storms stacking up they have to punch through a lot of dry air mass so we'll put a chance of rain in the monday forecast. looks likely to the north. and then we have rain in the forecast on tuesday and wednesday. tomorrow, we will have 79 degrees around morgan hill. wow, that's cool for this time of the year. also, upper 70s in throughout the tri-valley when the average high is in the mid-80s. north bay numbers from 64 with ament of some sun in bodega
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bay. -- were a hint of some sun if bodega bay to 74 degrees in novato. this weekend, spirit of japantown festival. this is big doings in san jose. 74 degrees. all right. that's on saturday. meanwhile, over the weekend, mostly cloudy skies a few sunny breaks. on monday that's when we have that good shot of rain showers in throughout the northern portion of our district. rain and wind likely on tuesday and wednesday. that's when you need to clear out all the leaves from your gutters. hey, dennis o'donnell, he is like -- straighten up the tie. he has sports coming up next as eyewitness news continues on cbs 5. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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more evidence that a new era has begun in oakland. the raiders sold out sunday's game against the patriots. that means -- >> yeah! [ applause ] >> oh, oh, oh. >> a lot of 9ers fans! the first time since 2008 that they sold out back-to-back games and, of course, you can see all the action here on cbs 5 starting at 1:00 followed by the fifth quarter -- >> yeah! [ applause and cheers ] ! >> fifth quarter! excellent! >> thank you, thank you very much. [ laughter ]
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>> anyway, the 49ers continue to practice in youngstown, ohio this week while they prepare for the eagles. it sounds like frank gore will be able to play in the game. gore has been nursing an ankle injury. harbaugh is very familiar with it. his brother john coached there for 10 seasons. >> cheered for the eagles. got a lot of eagle gear sent to to myself and my kids. there's been an eagles burning, clothes burned ceremonially. ever wonder what happens after the final day of the season? the beer truck, comes for the extra keg. brian sabean and bruce bochy discussed the disappointments of the season the biggest aubrey huff 44 points lower than last year after a $22 million contract
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signed in the off season. >> oh, boy. >> he knows that, you know, he -- his struggles helped cause our struggles. he is going to have to pull more weight. if he can't, the manager will be in a position to hopefully have other choices and we'll put other people in there if need be. >> whether, you know, he dropped the ball last year didn't work out enough in the winter, he -- he's looking at all those things. he was embarrassed. >> remember they did that to pablo a year earlier, remember? the as were packing boxes in the clubhouse this afternoon. much. talk this off season will be the future -- much of the talk this off season will be the future of general manager billy beane who seemed to squash rumors about his interest in the cubs vacancy. >> i have a little trip planned next week, but other than that, yes, i plan on being here. >> i might have sent him a kind of and off-the-cuff text when i read about the cubs thing. but no. i -- i'm real comfortable with the relationship. i certainly hope he stays here and i -- i think he will.
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>> you got a need for speed? a petaluma man's passion for going fast made hm a world recordholder. he did it all out of his garage. >> reporter: it might just be the bay area's most detailed shrine to the 1950s. everything in steve nelson's soda fountain is functional. and it's just one of many treasures in his impressive garage. >> anybody could build a bar. just get a few budweiser signs. >> reporter: nelson and his wife jeannie are car nuts. everything in the garage steve built from scratch including the legster. it was engineered by a team of friends to look like a bullet on wheels. last month, he set a land speed record at the bonneville salt flats topping 196 miles per hour, a record he pursued for four years. >> my you grandmother gave me a whole trunk of popular
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mechanics starting from 1906. i probably read every one of them from cover to cover. probably where i got my interest in things mechanical. >> when i was in the push truck and they were pushing him off, i started to cry because i could see him living his dream. >> reporter: others have gone faster, but none have done it with a 1932 ford engine block in the back. he has invested nearly $140,000 into the car, which would have been much higher without the help of ebay. >> i have a $1,200 transmission in here and that would have cost me $8,000 if i had bought it brand-new. >> reporter: today it's dismantled wheel he tries to get more speed. it's one of many projects. >> i don't think he can live long enough to do all of them. >> reporter: maybe next on the list a '60s room when guests get tired of the 1950s. >> when people walk in the first time and they ever see it, they are amazed. and i tell them, just drop your troubles out on the porch. they will be there when you get
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ready to leave but you can't bring them in the '50s room. >> wow! >> sweet. >> he could be hosting the channel five christmas party! >> yeah! >> in the malt shop room. >> light 'em up. >> what a fun couple. congratulations to him for living that dream. >> the malt shop and that '64 jukebox which i have the exact same one. >> and the fast-moving vehicle. >> great stuff. >> let's watch the raider game at his house this weekend. >> see you at 10 and 11. >> caption colorado, llc comments@captioncolorado.com don't worry, tiny people. flo is a gentle giant.
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